Macbeth
Title
Macbeth
Text Read
Macbeth
Author
Shakespeare, William. ed. Alexander Chalmers
Original Source
London: Bohn, 1854. The Complete Works of Shakespeare with a Memoir. pp. 269-83
Digitized by
Internet Archive
Publication Date
1854
Date(s) of Reading
- 1855-03-22
- 1869-09-10
- 1857-03-15 to 05-16
Evidence
1855-03-22: "Thursday 22. The weather still terrible and I not well. Read Scherr, wrote Spinoza. Read Macbeth. In the evening wrote." Diary 1854-1861 55
1869-09-10: "10. I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life- Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth." Diary 1861-1877 138
1857-03-15 to 05-16: Recollections of the Scilly Isles, 1857. “Our readings aloud were Cromwell's Letters, Aurora Leigh (for the 2d time), Life of Charlotte Bronte, Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea, 912 Twelfth Night and Macbeth, and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. I read the Œdipus Tyrannus and the Œdipus Coloneus, De Quincey's Glories of Stage Coach Travelling and Revolt of the Tartars, and the greater part of Shelley's poems.” GEL 2: 358
1869-09-10: "10. I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life- Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophanes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth." Diary 1861-1877 138
1857-03-15 to 05-16: Recollections of the Scilly Isles, 1857. “Our readings aloud were Cromwell's Letters, Aurora Leigh (for the 2d time), Life of Charlotte Bronte, Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea, 912 Twelfth Night and Macbeth, and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. I read the Œdipus Tyrannus and the Œdipus Coloneus, De Quincey's Glories of Stage Coach Travelling and Revolt of the Tartars, and the greater part of Shelley's poems.” GEL 2: 358
Citation
Shakespeare, William. ed. Alexander Chalmers, Macbeth, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57308